Swan House is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1952. A Medieval House.
Swan House
- WRENN ID
- low-kitchen-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1952
- Type
- House
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Swan House, 20, the Street, Appledore
- OS grid reference
- TQ 956 293
- Coordinates
- 51.02998, 0.78891
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Swan House is a 15th-century timber-framed and close-studded building located on the west side of The Street in Appledore. It features plaster infilling and has a first floor that oversails on a massive bressumer supported by brackets. The ground floor has been rebuilt in brick, which is now painted. The building has a hipped tiled roof and includes two casement windows.
Local climate
Swan House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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